Lee Atchison is a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing. He is the Senior Director for Cloud Architecture at New Relic. He’s been with New Relic for over seven years where, among other … ...see more about About Lee Atchison
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This is Lee's highly popular O'Reilly Media book, Architecting for Scale, Second Edition. As web applications grow, two things begin to happen. They scale to handle significantly more complicated and … ...see more about Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition
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Lee has 33 years of industry experience and consults with leading organizations on how to modernize their application architectures and transform their organizations at scale. Lee is an industry … ...see more about Contact Lee Atchison
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Launched in parallel two and a half years ago by Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda and Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) are two distinct services that each offer a new, leaner way of accessing compute resources. Amazon ECS lets developers tap into container technology on a pay-as-you-go basis. AWS Lambda offers what is often …
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There are two ways that companies use the cloud: The static method is simply to use the cloud as a better data center. The dynamic method is to take full advantage of the dynamic capabilities of the cloud. This involves allocating resources only when necessary, whether those resources are EC2 instances, queues, files, or Lambda …
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Building a scalable application that has high availability is not easy. Problems can crop up in unexpected ways that can cause your application to stop working and stop serving your customer’s needs.No one can anticipate where problems will come from and no amount of testing will identify and correct all issues. Some issues end up …